31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

32Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

12"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

13"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

14Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn`t yet know as he ought to know.

3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

7However, that knowledge isn`t in all men. But some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don`t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

9But be careful that by any means this liberty of yours doesn`t become a stumbling block to the weak.

10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol`s temple, won`t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

11And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don`t cause my brother to stumble.

12If others partake of this right over you, don`t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

13Don`t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

14Even so did the Lord ordain that those who proclaim the gospel should live from the gospel.

15But I have used none of these things, and I don`t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don`t preach the gospel.

17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the gospel.

19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

20To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

23Now I do this for the gospel`s sake, that I may be a joint partaker of it.